Stack Exchange — conlang.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (conlang.stackexchange.com) dataset of 374 users, 825 answer-collaboration edges, 603 questions, 1,184 answers, collected by Stack Exchange, Inc. via the annual Stack Exchange Data Dump. Each record contains user nodes (reputation, badge counts, vote history), directed weighted edges (answerer→asker, weight=answer score, count=interactions, accepted=bool), post text, tag distribution. User collaboration network from conlang.stackexchange.com — directed weighted graph where edges represent knowledge-sharing relationships (A answered B's question), with edge weight reflecting answer quality. Enables prestige hierarchy, community detection, and expertise flow analysis.. Suitable for expertise network analysis, reputation systems, community detection, knowledge flow, PageRank-based authority ranking, Q&A platform dynamics..

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Analytics

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Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.

374
Nodes
825
Edges
5.91e-03
Density
4
Components
-0.2451
Assortativity
5.3%
Reciprocity
173
Bridges
Most central nodes
1420.1126
300.05898
320.05898
29900.05362
3000.05094
1130.04558
12650.04558
26090.04558
29330.04021
7610.03485
Content metrics

1,787 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 5.473 ± 5.072
min -6max 50
view countμ 143.39 ± 597.813
min 0max 16.9K
answer countμ 0.663 ± 1.265
min 0max 14
comment countμ 1.514 ± 2.272
min 0max 24
10.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
quotlanguagelanguageslikewordsenglishworduseexampledonconlangdifferentverbquestionthinkwaytimeknowwantnounsystemsoundpeoplenaturalcaseverbsmeaninganswerwritingthingsneedsentencesoundsgrammarordervowelsnewesperantogoodpossiblebasedmeancommonmeansdoesnvowellatinnumberconlangsform
Topic clusters

Topic 0

vowel
consonant
sound
syllable
word
language
like
english

Topic 1

verb
noun
word
case
like
sentence
language
adjective

Topic 2

conlang
language
question
create
learn
construct
need
book

Topic 3

write
script
system
letter
writing
character
alphabet
use

Topic 4

esperanto
language
sae
nos
auxlang
interlingua
auxiliary
ido

Topic 5

tolkien
elvish
quenya
sindarin
language
black
speech
word

Topic 6

pona
toki
sona
jan
word
moku
phrase
lawa

Topic 7

answer
question
edit
comment
link
post
hope
add

Topic 8

thank
answer
look
yes
wow
good
comment
input

Topic 9

lojban
loglan
language
ambiguity
gismu
logical
mean
selbri

Topic 10

language
ship
change
generation
speak
people
proto
city

Topic 11

tense
past
aspect
perfect
time
present
future
reference
Show all 13 topics

Topic 12

klingon
okrand
trek
piqad
dialect
star
skull
nach
Top hashtags
#16
#26
#phonology3
#32
#402
#412
#awkwords2
#vowels2
#144a1
#1651
#171
#1831
#191
#221
#2231
#272581
#431
#48461
#51
#501

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-conlang-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2025
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by post date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
5,320
Nodes
374
Edges
825 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2018/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 2.3 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2025,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/download/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2025). Stack Exchange — conlang.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-conlang-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — conlang.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-conlang-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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